It is important for us (European Union) not to give a signal that we will be blackmailed by Putin. - Robert Habeck

Climate neutrality is a gigantic transformation project, with an immense amount of change ... with power lines and wind turbines, old industry and new industry, with fear of job losses and new opportunities. That cannot be organized in an authoritarian way. You have to create an environment for such a change, win society over to it.

Patriotismus, Vaterlandsliebe also, fand ich stets zum Kotzen. Ich wusste mit Deutschland nichts anzufangen und weiß es bis heute nicht.

Translation: Patriotism, that is love of the fatherland, always made me feel vomity. I didn't know what to do with Germany and still don't know to this day.